Growing as a Creative Professional

APTWE: Free to do what?

Finn: You just do your own thing. Realize your potential.

Sun: How do you light a candle without a match?

APTWE: For now, I am the match and the candle.

Becoming the match & the candle

A professional is someone who can keep working at a high level of effort and ethics, no matter what is going on —for good or ill— around him or inside him. —Steven Pressfield

When it comes to our careers and our experience at work, we’ve become selfish. But in a good way. Getting paid is no longer enough; we expect to actually learn on the job. We want our skills to be fully utilized and are left unsatisfied by “easy jobs.” We want more responsibility… We expect to do more of what we love… —Scott Belsky

...the twenty-first-century career is more like a broad-faced rock that we are all free-climbing. —Jocelyn K. Glei

We haven’t solved this but some thought leaders have solved parts of it.

Clarity of Why

Discipline of How

Consistency of What

Clarity of Why

Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. —Paul Arden

How will the world be better off thanks to you having been on this earth?

What are your unique gifts and superpowers?

Who have you been when you’ve been at your best?

Who must you fearlessly become?Finding

Your Purpose and Living It

Keith Yamashita

…the more intimate we are with what we want, the more self-aware we will be about how we spend our time.

Great Work is what we all want more of. This is the work that is meaningful to you, that has an impact and makes a difference. It inspires, stretches, and provokes. Great Work is the work that matters.

www.DoMoreGreatWork.com

MAP 5: WHAT’S CALLING YOU?

Discipline of How

What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while. —Gretchen Rubin

Explore

Evaluate

Eliminate

Execute

Finding Your Work Sweet Spot

Scott Belsky

Zone of Maximum Impact

Focus

Relationships

Energy

Stimuli

Hours

Widen Your Options

Reality Test Your Assumptions

Attain Distance

Prepare to be Wrong

Widen Your Options Vanishing Options Test Multitracking

Reality Test Your Assumptions Ooching

Attain Distance 10/10/10 Advice to a Good Friend

Prepare to be Wrong Tripwire

Upholder Obliger Questioner Rebel

Lark vs. Owl Opener vs. Finisher Moderator vs. Abstainer •••

Inconvenience Pairing •••

ExternalExpectations

The Four Tendencies

UpholderQuestioner

Rebel Obliger

InternalExpectations

how we respond to expectations, according to Better Than Before

Consistency of What

The key is to learn to deliver upon expectations while continuing to push into uncomfortable places and forge new avenues of thought and work. —Todd Henry

If you’re building a product or service

HOW TO SET PRODUCT PRORITIES Bruce McCarthy Founder & Chief Product Person, UpUp Labs

General Assembly

(of course)

Ben Spear Consultant, Brand Strategy & Design

THE LEAN BRAND

Up and Running

PB: It’s a dang plug-n-play, girl.

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Begin anywhere. —Bruce Mau

…you have to kiss a lot of frogs. —Dean Kamen

Clarity of Why

Discipline of How

Consistency of What

Identity Who are you?

Vision Where are you headed?

Mastery How will you get there?

Begin anywhere. —Bruce Mau

Growth is painful, change is painful, but nothing is more painful than staying in the wrong place.

Additional Resources

15 Exercises 50+ Questions

Aptitudes Passions Happiness Attitude Tribe

Just read the book

Externalize Information

Direct the Rider

Motivate the Elephant

Shape the Path

…find the areas where you have the greatest potential to develop strengths.

Simple Unexpected Concrete Credible Emotional Stories